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The Good Wife, Season 6, Episode 5: “Shiny Objects”

Written by Keith Eisner

Directed by Frederick E. O. Toye

Airs Sundays at 9pm Et on CBS

One of the particular strengths of The Good Wife is its uncanny sense of series memory. With well over 100 episodes’ worth of long-standing character relationships, tertiary characters, and running gags to draw upon, it’s rare that a new episode comes down the pike that doesn’t reward long-time viewers, even if it’s just in a minute way. “Shiny Objects” is, on the surface, a prototypical latter-day Good Wife episode, in that it offers up a case of the week while keeping the season’s master plot humming along, but it also manages (for better and worse) to lean on several long-standing relationships and character beats to an unusual degree.

The least of these bears special mention. This week, it was announced that Archie Panjabi...

It is the kind of week already where I had to go find a calendar so I could put the correct date in the headline. So it seems like a good time to catch up on Austin film news, and refresh my memory about a few recent items. Here's what we've got:

News 8 Austin broadcast a great story last week on the locally founded American Genre Film Archive, which is working to protect and restore exploitation, horror and action films. Be sure to watch the video.The Least of These, which Jenn Brown and I both enjoyed at SXSW 2009, is now available on DVD through IndiePix. This documentary focuses on Texas detention centers for families who are believed to have entered this country illegally. It's an eye-opener, and just writing about this makes me wonder if the conditions have changed at all in the past year. I hope so.The...

The world of modern evangelical media is a diverse one, with many subtle nuances and differences of opinion providing surprisingly strong distinctions between the major figures of the movement. Lee Strobel (a former editor for the Chicago Tribune) is a Christian apologetic, a term applied to those who seek to prove God’s existence through rational thought, science, and other forms of verifiable evidence. Strobel initially sought to determine Christ’s divinity in the early 1980s, a process that led to his ultimate conversion from atheism; over twenty years later, he has written over twenty books and produced numerous DVDs on the subject of Christ’s divinity, many of them bestsellers. This particular set collects three of his DVDs: The Case for Christ, The Case for Faith, and The Case for a Creator. Though there are subtle differences between all of the programs, they each contain a great deal of the same information,...